So far so goodYou're coming to the bend at the end of the roadYou put a hand to the belly that's foreign moreWith every day like an oversize load

And you're thinking about clouds the color of fireAnd the scent of an orange peelThe way Mt. Shasta explodes into windshield viewAnd your hands steady on the wheel

So far so goodCoffee motel coffee diner coffee go onStyrofoam is drying like the tears that once did flowStarting 10 o'clock and ending at dawn

And you can't go back but you're going backAnd you don't know what you'll sayYou've got half-formed sentencesExplanations for a life half-broken awayAnd they just mayThey'll take you in their arms and then take out their knivesSo you drive on thinking

So far so goodBut you can't go on much longer like this you knowYou're all alone in this world no that's not trueThe nice Christian lady told you so

She was handing out pamphlets by the clinic doorSaying "Jesus knows what you've been throughTake the Savior into your heart my childThere's love waiting for the both of you"

Well you don't believe but you have to believeIt's still crumpled there in your back seatWere you the hero or the worst kind of coward back therePutting pavement back under your feetCouldn't stand the heatCouldn't stand the thought of ghosts with a negative ageTurn the pageOK

So far so goodYou try to sing along to the radioBut it's not your language not your songIt's from some other time ago

And you're thinking about how someone died that dayThe you that was so carefully plannedBut then again maybe this life is like a sleeping mountainWaking up to shape the land

Calm calm let it come let it come back to youCalm calm breathe on out you know you know what to do